1942-1945
SERIES VI
Gen. Douglas
MacArthur and Gen. Jonathan Wainwright in a Hotel in Tokyo, in August,
1945. This was the first meeting of these two men, since Gen. MacArthur
left the Philippines for Australia, on March 11, 1942. Gen. Wainwright
was a Prisoner of War from May 6, 1942 to August 1945. He was interned
in Cadre Barracks, Formosa, and Hsien, Manchuria, where he was Liberated
by a US OSS Team.
(National Archives)
A Propaganda
Leaflet Dropped on Filipino and American Troops on Bataan. Tillman
Rutledge tells us he remembers this particular one, at the Battle of Abucay
Hacienda.
(USAMHI)
Japanese Prison
Guards and a Translator (far right) in
a POW Camp
in Japan
(USAMHI)
Camp Hoten,
Mukden, Manchuria
In October, 1942, approximately, 1500 POWs, from Cabanatuan, boarded the Tottori Maru, in Pier 7, in Manila. The ship took them to Fusan, Korea, where they boarded a train and were sent to Camp Hoten, in Mukden, Manchuria, arriving in early November, 1942. Most of these men were forced to work as slave laborers, at the Manchuko KK, a factory that made parts for Japanese tanks and other war related hardware. They were liberated in August, 1945.
(Maurice Christie)
Young Soldeirs
in Intramurros, late in 1941.
Just some of the young faces of the men who served on Bataan and endured approximately 39 months as Prisoners of the Japanese. Any information on these men would be greatly appreciated.
(Millard Pratt)